Comments for Georgine Balassone: What I Learned From My Mother at http://www.lauradavis.net , comment 1 to 15 out of 15 comments http://www.lauradavis.net Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:37:48 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-447 Hi Georgine - not sure how I came across your great piece, but it was insightful and emotional. Just as your writing always has been. Thanks for the wonderful reminder of you. Love you - Jim - Jim Haggett Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:44:49 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-172 hey george! loved reading this piece..... it brought me right back to childhood and all those lessons one learns about life! I also thought you caught your relationship with your Mom so well..... And you did not really talk about learning to cook from your mom ..... maybe your next piece will be about cooking! love always.... ;);) - mary lou Fri, 12 Mar 2010 18:46:39 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-47 I am happy to have this written piece here where I can reread it again and again! It make me want to have a reflection theme party and discuss "What we have learned from our Moms." Good for you George!!!! - Jodi Tue, 09 Jun 2009 22:34:47 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-20 Hi George! Did you have any doubt that you are a good writer? (per Laura's comment above) I found this piece enjoyable, moving and humorous. Interesting that our parents can teach us one thing while trying to teach something else. My mother was schizophrenic. I learned how to be a great crisis counselor~! Keep writing! - Anita Tue, 12 May 2009 16:10:15 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-19 Hey George- lovely piece. I guess you had something to write about after all. Enjoyed reading it, and glad I will see you soon. Love, Tara;D - Tara Manjunath Mon, 11 May 2009 12:02:47 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-18 Lisa's Aunt Jeannie here. Your family came to life right before my eyes. By the way ... you don't need make up ... you're beautiful as you are. Congratulations on living life your way ... and still loving your mom. :-* - Jeannie Noia Mon, 11 May 2009 09:37:13 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-17 Oh, Geo. Your writing is so intensly kinesthetic. I don't think it's because I know you and your mom. I think it's because you truly have learned all these things from her and you articulate them with such heartfelt depth and clarity. There's no way not to feel the truth in your words, every last one of them. Thank you so much. - jane Sun, 10 May 2009 23:52:24 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-16 Georgine, I guess this means you're really a writer after all. - Laura Davis Sun, 10 May 2009 22:39:39 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-15 Mothers are amazing in their ability to contradict themselves, and still always be right. This increcible skill knows no ethnic boundaries. Still . . . you make me wish I was Italian. - Becky Wecks Sun, 10 May 2009 21:37:05 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-14 I can't wait to tell people I knew George before she was famous. Please keep writing - You're fucking awesome!! ;) - Larae Sun, 10 May 2009 17:30:13 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-13 Georgine, I have missed sitting across the circle from you in class and hearing your strong words. This piece explains all of the fierce (and yet tender) toughness that I sensed in you make so much more sense. Beautiful. - dona Bumgarner Sun, 10 May 2009 14:06:23 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-12 Georgine, I found your description of your family to be delightful, heartwarming, much like Janet Evanovitch and her description of some of her family. My heart is sad for the friend you lost in your twin brother. That piece of you that you feel the loss of forever, what could have been, should have been. Life is incredible and sorrowful, all at the same time. - Cathy Stengel Sun, 10 May 2009 11:55:53 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-11 My mother's side of the family are the Giallombardo's. What Georgine says here is familiar and yeah, Italian true! There is a strong daily push forward in the Italian family and a fierce loyalty to one's own family. Georgine says it in a description of her mother that holds less shades of grey than black and white. Italians are actors, they do stuff. They take action. And there is the belief that one is taking some higher moral action and that every action is being evaluated by God. So (we) evaluate everyone else around us, like a Catholic inspection line. Georgine, the descriptions of your brother and the setbacks of the family are heart-wrenching and quite moving. Thank you for sharing about your mother this Mother's Day! - Jeffrey Gerhardstein Sun, 10 May 2009 08:11:54 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-9 So beautiful! Georgine has a voice that pierces the heart and makes you laugh at the same time..I can't wait for her memoir to come out. :) - Lisa Buell Sun, 10 May 2009 06:56:41 +0100 http://www.lauradavis.net/Featured-Writers/georgine-balassone-what-i-learned-from-my-mother.html#comment-8 Wow. Really. Wow. Raw and incredibly touching. - Y Sun, 10 May 2009 04:42:00 +0100